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DUBLIN, Ireland, November 1, 2023 – NFP, a market-leading international specialty insurance broking and consulting firm, today announced it has acquired SeaChange Limited, a health and safety consultancy based in Naas, County Kildare. This acquisition expands NFP’s European health and safety capabilities and solutions for the company’s Irish, UK, and mainland European clients. The acquisition closed effective October 1. “Acquiring SeaChange provides an exciting opportunity to sup

We are pleased to announce that Dr Paul Cummins has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of SeaChange Ltd., succeeding his father and the company’s founder, Ger Cummins, who will continue in the business and serve as acting chair of the board. Since joining the family business in 2011, Paul has been committed to developing SeaChange and has worked to grow the business at scale to its current position as a leader in the health and safety industry. His entrepreneurial intuition

Established 12 years ago and with a readership composed primarily of industry decision-makers numbering 65,000, Transport & Logistics Magazine is the premier title for land, sea, and air news, developments, and case studies. T & L showcase best practice companies both nationally and internationally on a purely business-to-business basis in both print and digital format. Furthermore, T & L is an approved News Publisher for Google News.   SeaChange client Ace

SeaChange MD Dr Paul Cummins was invited to be a guest speaker at Hovione’s Global Safety Week earlier this month. Paul spoke about how to ‘Lead a Sustainable Safety Culture in the Pharmaceutical Industry’.   Paul’s speaking engagement began with the fact that Pharmaceutical organisations often spearhead safety investment and performance; however, despite the significant investment many Pharmaceutical companies make in health and safety, they still experience unsafe behaviours, related near mis

SeaChange love to treat our innovative and hard-working team where possible, and this month we had a fantastic team day at Zero Latency in Dublin!  Zero Latency offers an arena-scale virtual reality experience that uses a unique combination of technology and pure imagination to transport people into fun social games & immersive group experiences. 

Dr Paul Cummins, Managing Director of SeaChange, was honoured by the invitation to speak at the Annual Health & Safety Review Conference 2022. Held on September 15th at UCD, the event boasted an impressive audience of top EHS experts and representatives from blue chip companies across Ireland, excited to attend the first HSR Conference since the Covid-19 pandemic began. Paul co-presented with Greg Ramsbottom, EHS Lead of Primark Global – a SeaChange client. Together they detailed the import

SeaChange Managing Director, Dr Paul Cummins, was delighted to share his thoughts on Leading Sustainable Safety Culture Transformation at the Future in Pharmaceuticals event which took place in the historic Croke Park on July 6th. Paul was invited to speak alongside a panel of experts including Cormac McCarthy (SEAI), Ronan Coffey (Boston Scientific) and Mark Yeeles (Schneider Electric). Paul’s speaking engagement began with the fact that Pharmaceutical organisations often spearhead safety inve

SeaChange is delighted to continue to support its wonderful team with a brand new fleet of vehicles. Our people are the priority of our business, and providing our expert team with new vehicles is something we are delighted to do in 2022. Being based in Naas, Co. Kildare, we went local to source our company vehicles through Joe Mallon Motors. They are a great local business and excellent to deal with. "We’re proud to have recently supplied ten Dacia Duster Commercials to SeaChange Ltd., another

Dr Paul Cummins, Managing Director of SeaChange, was asked to speak at this year’s IOSH Ireland East Branch conference, hosted by Dublin’s Clayton Hotel on April 19th. The conference theme was ‘The Basics of Good Leadership in Health and Safety’. It aimed to provide valuable knowledge on effective health and safety leadership and how to instil a positive safety culture in an organisation. Measuring and Leading Safety Culture Paul’s presentation focused on ‘Measurin

Westpark Fitness is a leading fitness business in the Irish Sports and Leisure sector. They are naturally proactive when it comes to building a positive working culture and care about safeguarding the welfare of their staff and customers.   When it came to risk management and health and safety, Westpark Fitness knew that simply ticking the safety compliance box was not going to engage their workforce or make a difference in reducing incidents and managing rising insuran

The hospitality industry is a prominent high-footfall sector, with typical operations involving a steady customer traffic flow. Businesses within the hospitality industry are exposed to high levels of risk, often resulting in accidents, injuries, and costly claims.  To successfully manage risk and prevent these common occurrences, hospitality providers must identify hazards in their business, perform a risk assessment, and implement controls to mitigate potential incidents.  Haza

Workplace accidents are commonplace in the retail industry, putting staff and customers at risk of injury and incurring huge costs in the form of lost time and insurance claims.   To instil a positive safety culture that benefits everyone involved in your retail business, SeaChange has developed some essential tips to guide you toward establishing consistent workplace health and safety habits and achieving a significant reduction in accidents and resulting claims.  1. Ensure You

At SeaChange, we think outside the box. We understand that for safety culture to grow successfully, each member of your workforce needs to feel connected to the safety message.   Traditional health and safety systems fail to address this basic need, instead focusing on paper-based methods that have proven ineffective.   SeaChange provides alternative safety solutions: innovative systems that resonate with your workforce, help guide your organisation’s safety c

At SeaChange, we use our experience and expertise to design bespoke systems and solutions that transform organisational safety culture and benefit everyone in the workplace.   Let’s start with a clear definition of safety culture.   What is Safety Culture?  The Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL) aptly defines Safety Culture as ‘a combination of the attitudes, values and perceptions that influence how something is actually done in the workpl

Workplace accidents are commonplace in the retail industry, putting staff and customers at risk of injury and incurring huge costs in the form of lost time and insurance claims.   To instil a positive safety culture that benefits everyone involved in your retail business, SeaChange has developed some essential tips to guide you toward establishing consistent workplace health and safety habits and achieving a significant reduction in accidents and resulting claims.  1. Ensure You

Dr Paul Cummins, Managing Director of SeaChange, was asked to speak at this year’s IOSH Ireland East Branch conference, hosted by Dublin’s Clayton Hotel on April 19th. The conference theme was ‘The Basics of Good Leadership in Health and Safety’. It aimed to provide valuable knowledge on effective health and safety leadership and how to instil a positive safety culture in an organisation. Measuring and Leading Safety Culture Paul’s presentation focused on ‘Measurin

Workplace accidents are commonplace in the retail industry, putting staff and customers at risk of injury and incurring huge costs in the form of lost time and insurance claims.   To instil a positive safety culture that benefits everyone involved in your retail business, SeaChange has developed some essential tips to guide you toward establishing consistent workplace health and safety habits and achieving a significant reduction in accidents and resulting claims.  1. Ensure You

At SeaChange, we think outside the box. We understand that for safety culture to grow successfully, each member of your workforce needs to feel connected to the safety message.   Traditional health and safety systems fail to address this basic need, instead focusing on paper-based methods that have proven ineffective.   SeaChange provides alternative safety solutions: innovative systems that resonate with your workforce, help guide your organisation’s safety c

At SeaChange, we use our experience and expertise to design bespoke systems and solutions that transform organisational safety culture and benefit everyone in the workplace.   Let’s start with a clear definition of safety culture.   What is Safety Culture?  The Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL) aptly defines Safety Culture as ‘a combination of the attitudes, values and perceptions that influence how something is actually done in the workpl

As the COVID-19 crisis continues to unfold, some organisations will prevail while for others the future may be very bleak. The actions and behaviours of business leaders and their teams right now will significantly determine how organisations fare in the long months ahead. A crisis, by its nature, causes fear, and leaders and their teams will feel very anxious. In order to cope with this crisis, there is a need to both Lead and Manage effectively – but it is important to understand the differen

Although many organisations believe that doing something more quickly — and often less safely — results in more productive output, the opposite is true across every business sector. Why is this the reality? The Financial Case No matter your work environment, reducing downtime is the key to maintaining productivity and requires running at peak efficiency. In the workspace, employees are critically necessary to maintain optimal productivity and, because businesses rely on employees in this way, i

In order to reduce the communication gap and help Safety Culture grow, your organisation must think outside the box and redesign the manner in which the safety message is communicated. This essential shift has the power to move the individual from seeing safety as external to viewing it as an internal mechanism. Driving home the safety message through traditional, compliance-driven, box-ticking communication methods cannot possibly be effective in the long term. It is not to say that compliance

75% of the general population think, learn and respond most effectively through visuals, so why do we insist on burdening our people with text-heavy, jargon-rich documentation? Recent research by learning and development theorists suggests that approximately 75% of the population uses visual/spatial thinking, and 25% think predominantly in words. This means that the majority of people prefer to understand information through images, pictures, diagrams, graphics, shapes, colours, demonstrations